 | 1879 - 1036 pages
...which contains a few of those sententious couplets that were afterward so common in his volumes. " A subtle chain of countless rings, The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." It is to an earlier period than this that some of the love-poems belong, — that for example, " To... | |
 | 1901 - 1022 pages
...at the quadruped and walks ; arrives at the man and thinks.' him is on the ascent : Everything with A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; And, striving to be man. the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. In this last couplet he... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...The far halloo of human voice ; The perfumed berry on the spray Smacks of faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. I saw the bud-crowned Spring... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...503 POLITICS 519 NOMINALIST AND REALIST 533 •J Jjfdw ENGLAND KEFORMERS * 547 MISCELLANIES. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm 11 omits through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. /^^VUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...Lecture read to the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844 289 MISCELLANIES. NATURE. A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omons where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...noise The far halloo of human voice; The perfumed berry on the spray Smacks of faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. The caged linnet in the spring... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...noise The far halloo of human voice; The perfumed berry on the spray Smacks of faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. The caged linnet in the spring... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1877 - 370 pages
...accumulation of specific advantages will be summed up in a new genus. 6 And thus, as Emerson has said— "Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." Now, to the merely scientific mind evolution is simply a scientific generalisation. In its light he... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...The far halloo of human voice ; The perfumed berry on the spray Smacks of faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. I saw the bud-crowned Spring... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...AMERICAN. A Lecture read to the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844 289 NATURE. A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. Om age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
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A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. 
